Published in Bull Am Coll Surg on June 01, 2012
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Survey of surgery and anesthesia infrastructure in Ethiopia. World J Surg (2012) 0.94
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Bowel wall fat halo sign in patients without intestinal disease. AJR Am J Roentgenol (2003) 0.91
Arterial switch operation with a single coronary artery. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2002) 0.91
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Diffusion-tensor imaging assessment of white matter maturation in childhood and adolescence. AJR Am J Roentgenol (2011) 0.89